Combining Corn is done!

Combining corn is done for another year. Now this is either good news or bad news. The good news part of it is that the stress of trying to get the harvest done is over and it’s not even November. Whoo Hoo!! But the bad news is that when you are done it’s the end of your crop and it seems like you’re always hoping for more you know? But for tonight, well I’m glad that Daryl got done. It’s as exciting to see the combine come back in the yard as it is to see it go out for the first time of the season. 

As for me? Well I spent the day working on getting some stuff painted around the farm. I wanted to get for sure the old milk house painted and the fence by the cattle yard done today. Now there’s been much debate on the color of the milk house and I really wasn’t sure what color it should be. So I left it up to Daryl and he said that the milk house has always been white and I guess then I should paint it white again. My plans for this building is to make it into a play house for when we have family over the little kids can go in there and play. Seriously I think that will be pretty cool don’t you?  I laughed when I was working on painting today because I kept having Smoochie the little orange kitty hanging around. She’d rub against the pail or the wall and then she’d rub against my legs. Needless to say that at the end of the day I had white stripes all over my legs from her. When I was washing it off later, I found out that Daryl had some trouble with the cat when he was opening up the paint. And when the cat had gotten white all over her face, well Daryl ended up having to give it a quick bath in the barn. I would have liked to see that!  I was going to show the before and after of the milk house, but I didn’t get enough of the landscaping bricks on Friday, so you’ll just have to wait to see the official ‘after’ picture.

After I got the milk house painted, it was time to move on to the fence. I took a quick snapshot of the fence before and after and even though it might not look like that much of a difference – it really was and it looks a lot cleaner now.

Before

After

Daryl was also able to get the cow yard cleaned up for the winter months in between unloading corn today. We had some trouble with Ed the bull lately, and he’d put his head under the one gate and keep lifting it up and down until he broke the hook. Now you’re probably asking yourself, who cares if they broke the hook right? Well the gate was the only barrier between the cows and all our round bales of hay. Yea, once they’d get into the shed they were some pretty happy cows! But since their couple days of fooling us, Daryl put a kabash on that and now they’re locked out for good. In the meantime, they sure made a mess. So that was his other project today, cleaning up the cow yard. (Looking at this picture, it seems like this fence needs a little paint also! )

And the photo of the day is that of our cows while Daryl is working in the yard.